§ MR. PETER M'DONALD (Sligo, N.)asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, If hewill lay upon the Table of the House, the Report of the Treasury Remembrancer on the accounts of Mr. C. H. James, late Official Assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy in Ireland, and if he will state the cost of the inquiry conducted by the Remembrancer, and out of what fund it was paid; and, if he will lay upon the Table the Report of the Commission or Committee of Inquiry, consisting of the Vice Chancellor, the Right Hon. Judge Flanagan, and a gentleman from the Treasury, appointed about twelve months ago to inquire into the state and working of the Court of Bankruptcy in Ireland?
§ THE SECRETARY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)The Report referred to in the first part of the Question was not addressed to the Treasury, but to the Bankruptcy Judges. Any Question as to its publication should, therefore, be addressed to my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney General for Ireland. The costs incurred in the inquiry amounted to £477, and it is not yet decided how they are to be provided for.
261 I understand that there is no objection to the publication of the Report referred to in the second part of the Question.